Because it would be a still image, I placed items in a way that look good from the camera (Fig.11).

Fig. 11

For the soldiers I used the same body as the Emperor. Because I wanted the soldiers to be smaller I scaled down their bodies a bit. Then I modeled the helmet and the neck (Fig.12).

Fig. 12

The soldiers would hold weapons. I created a cylinder, pressed the Tab key, extruded polygons and made some edge loops: three torus for the energy circles and a sphere in front of the gun barrel. Nothing complicated. Only simple moves (Fig.13).

Fig. 13

Pose

To pose the characters, I used the bones system in modo. It was easy to set up a rig for those kinds of characters (Fig.14).